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Autonomy Without Modularity Is Just Risk at Scale
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Autonomy Without Modularity Is Just Risk at Scale

At NEARCON this week, we spent a lot of time talking about autonomous systems in practice. But there was one principle I didn’t get enough time to emphasize on stage: modularity. Autonomy at scale without modularity doesn’t reduce risk; it amplifies it.

Noelle Becker Moreno
Shift From API Keys to Per-Request Payments: Solving Agent Loop Spending
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Shift From API Keys to Per-Request Payments: Solving Agent Loop Spending

A multi-agent system mistakenly burned $47,000+ in API costs. No hacker. No breach. Just bad infrastructure controls. With ampersend, every LLM call becomes a real USDC payment with spending limits enforced at the wallet level—when the agent’s budget runs out, the agent stops spending money even if the code keeps running.

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